Electronics

Electronics Hip Hop 

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

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Art Pop Electronics Experimental Folk Hip Hop Indie Rock 

Don Giovanni Records’ Quest To Share Honest Cultural Narratives Forges On

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bad Moves, Don Giovanni Records, Marissa Paternoster, Modern Hut, Moor Mother, Supercrush, Teenage Halloween

Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt on cultivating narrative truth, the label’s plans for 2021 and his new album with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster 

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Classical Electronics 

ALBUMS: The Reintegration Loops

December 26, 2020December 27, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2020, 9/11, Lamentations, Ltd., Temporary Residence, The Disintegration Loops, William Basinski

On Lamentations, William Basinski again indicts the concept of recorded sound as deathless zombie-like preservation, revealing instead the inherent impermanence of technology’s documentary mediums,

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Electronics Hard Rock Hip Hop Pop Rock 

The Alpha and Omega of Tommy Lee

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Andro, King Elle Noir, Lukas Rossi, Mickey Avalon, Mötley Crüe, PLYA, Post Malone, Sholly Horroh, Tommy Lee

With a bold new solo album out, we catch up with the Mötley Crüe drummer about transcending conpartmentalization

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Art Pop Electronics Pop Psychedelics Remembrance Rock 

Set The Controls For The Heart Of Pink Floyd

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1997, Broken China, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Rick Wright, Roger Waters, Sinead O'Connor, Syd Barrett, Wet Dream

Read a 1997 interview from the late Richard Wright

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Electronics jazz 

ALBUMS: Maria Schneider Assesses The Divide Between Nature and Technology

September 5, 2020September 7, 2020 David Beckett 0 Comments Ben Monder, Blackstar, Data Lords, Donny McCaslin, Duke Ellington, Frank Kimbrough, Greg Gisbert, Jazz, Maria Schneider, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Ryan Keberle

On Data Lords, the Grammy winning composer and bandleader takes on the Matrix on stunning double LP

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Alternative Rock Electronics Industrial 

Everything’s Blue In This World: Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down The Spiral Turns 25

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1995, Aphex Twin, Coil, Further Down The Spiral, Marilyn Manson, nin, Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Rick Rubin, The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor

The Downward Spiral remix album is so much more than a remix album

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Electronics Rap 

WATCH: Travis Scott Plays Fortnite

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Astronomical Tour, Fortnite, Hip-hop, Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, video games

The Houston rapper has revolutionized the dynamics of the concert experience during COVID-19

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African Dub/Reggae Electronics 

African Head Charge And The International Language of Drum

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Adrian Sherwood, Africa, African Head Charge, Bill Laswell, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Dub, Jah Wobble, King Tubby, The Clash, U-Sound

An excellent new box set chronicles the second half of Adrian Sherwood’s celebrated vision of a Psychedelic Africa

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Alternative Rock Blues Dance Rock Electronics New Wave Pop 

Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken: Thirty Years Of Depeche Mode’s ‘Violator’

April 23, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1990, Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Enjoy The Silence, Flood, Martin Gore, Personal Jesus, Violator

Looking back at when the world’s biggest synth band plugged in and played the blues

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Electronic Electronics 

ALBUMS: What Me Worry? Satan Please!

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments Crystalline, Denovali, Fields, Gavin Miller, Last Night On Earth, M83, Sound In Silence, worriedaboutsatan

Released ahead of their incoming full-length Time Lapse on May 8th, the UK electronic outfit worriedaboutsatan offers a glimpse of things to come

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Electronics Fusion jazz Remembrance 

LISTEN: RIP Lyle Mays–A Rock & Roll Globe Playlist

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment American Garage, Christian McBride, ECM, Fusion, Jazz, Joni Mitchell, Lyle Mays, Offramp, Pat Metheny, Petra Haden, RIP, Vernon Reid

Digging into the discography of a man who changed the shape of jazz in the New Wave era

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Electronics Pop Psychedelics Rock 

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Abbey Road’s 50-Year Makeover

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 Robert Baird 1 Comment 50th anniversary, Abbey Road, Because, Carry That Weight, Come Together, George Harrison, George Martin, Giles Martin, Here Comes The Sun, John Lennon, Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, Something, Sun King, The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Beatles’ final studio masterpiece is given the anniversary deluxe treatment with savory results

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Dance Electronics Experimental Funk Glam Gospel Hip Hop Indie Rock New Wave Pop Post-Punk Psychedelics Rock Soul 

The 30 Best Music Videos of 2019

December 23, 2019December 30, 2019 Jason Gross 0 Comments Bob Mould, Chemical Brothers, FKA Twigs, Jenny Lewis, Jim Jarmusch, Josef Van Wissem, Mitski, Neneh Cherry, Open Mike Eagle & Sammus, Patrick Stickles, PUP, Ridge Productions, slowthai., Stormzy, that dog., The Oh Sees, Thom Yorke, Tinariwen, William Tyler

Counting down the best clips not shown on MTV

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Classical Dub/Reggae Electronics Experimental 

They Travel The Spaceways

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, Cluster, Craig Leon, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Lee Scratch Perry, Lunz, Lunz 3, Mr. Green, Roedelius, Super Ape vs. 緑: Open Door, Tim Story

New albums by Roedelius, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Craig Leon push the boundaries of pop

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